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DIED. NILS BOHLIN, 82, Swedish seat-belt inventor, who in 1959 developed the harness that today is standard equipment; in Transas, Sweden. His safety belt supports the upper and lower parts of the body with one continuous strap fastened by a buckle placed on the side...
DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli inventor of the Uzi submachine gun; in Philadelphia. He let his name be used for the gun only after the manufacturer insisted; Uzi is the abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase "God is my might...
These molecular structures are called fullerenes, or buckyballs, in honor of the American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller. Smalley sits on the board of C-Sixty, a biotech company that builds fullerenes into molecules that researchers hope will attach to and deactivate HIV molecules and blow up cancer cells on cue. "Buckyballs are not quite like nanosubmarines that target deadly diseases"--as seen in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage--"but because of their size and shape, they are well suited for drug discovery," says Stephen Wilson, co-founder of C-Sixty, based in Houston...
...DIED. UZI GAL, 79, Israeli engineer and inventor of the submachine gun that bears his name; in Philadelphia. Sales of the reliable and easy-to-use weapon, a staple in the military arsenals of over 20 countries, have earned Israel's government-run armaments industry over $2 billion in revenue since the Uzi's introduction...
...just ride in cars--a top U.S. inventor has transformed the lowly scooter into what he calls a high-tech "human transporter," while the humble bicycle is poised to incorporate a few tricks...